Just a fancy:
Fraudians would explain someone’s perpetual tardiness as a subconcious act of control over one’s life. They would also use this explanation to understand someone’s repeated “mistakes” or the failure to correct them. It’s sort of the act of sabotage without having to really take responsibility for your actions. Could a newspaper and its writers be that devious or unawares? You tell me…just a thought…

Never assume a conspiracy when indolent incompetence is an adequate explanation.

I called them up, explained what the correct URL should be and was told they would take care of it. I assume the staff person I spoke to did not bother to do what they said they would, so presumably they are not paid enough to actually do their jobs. Oh well.

Print journos seem to have an almost instictive reaction to URLs and thus seem to always bugger them up. Subconciously, they don’t want to admit that internet really matters methinks. Another classic thing is to just forget the URL altogether.

This is a cyber-typo verging on the deranged. And did you notice no mention of Glenn Reynolds? That’s like writing about the War without mentioning Churchill.

And right-wing? Norman Tebbit is right wing. Jean-Marie le Pen is right wing. Is political discourse in Britain so fubar that libertarianism is lazily filed away under ‘right-wing’ too? Methinks Samizdata has a mountain to climb, if even the allegedly educated intellectual elite make retarded mistakes like this.

I don’t consider myself right wing either, but being one of “these guys” in the sentence “If you think I am right wing, then you should see these guys” makes me feel empowered somehow. It makes me want to go and let out a long James Bond villain syle laugh, or something. Of course, it’s not as good as being a member of the neoconservative conspiracy, but I suspect this is something that will always elude me.

Natalie, happy? Not really. Mainly annoyed at them missing the point. The article was really poor both in terms of the angle on the subject, as well as the method of research. We can always hope, they get it right next time…

Gabriel: Quite. The journalist seemed to have no clues whatsoever about blogging, unfortunately. One would think that there must be someone in the Times somewhere who did, but the editors failed to find that person.

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